To me, the refusal to properly fund education ultimately seems like a tacit approval of slavery. The less you know, the easier you are to control, and the harder it is for you to seek remediation when you are being exploited. It's perfect for the ruling classes.
people care more about low property taxes.
- Mike Nencetti
*shrug* We're certainly not the first republic in human history to go down this route.
- Victor Ganata
"We must educate our masters" but keep our drones ignorant
- sjjh
A great reason to get Government out of education. Government schools create good subjects.
- Dave Roth
Uh, no. The public universities in California used to give you the most bang for your buck. My undergrad education cost at most one-fourth of what a private education costs. Too bad Schwarzenegger and the Regents are intent on dismantling the Master Plan. It's actually pretty clear that some people really aren't interested in meritocracy at all.
- Victor Ganata
I think we can only blame ourselves. Low taxes and having tax payer revolts are popular and simplistic, but doesn't actually solve any of our real problems.
- Piaw Na
many of the uneducated that seek education don't give a shit about property taxes because the don't own any property. and the way things are going, they (we) never will.
- Morgan Haley
I really see these trends as a way that kids with poor parents might eventually end up as property themselves, or at least treated as such by the ruling classes, even if these kids have the intelligence and talent to succeed in a mythological meritocratic world. It's not like it's easy to get into Cal or UCLA, nor is it that easy to graduate. Hell, I may not have even gotten in if I had to apply now.
- Victor Ganata
Why is entrepreneurialism not taught in American schools, starting in the younger grades? Why is it always "do well in school so you can get a good job" (working for someone else)? Why are our children not being taught from the start that they can work for themselves? Why are they not shown how? Why do teachers in this country have to run cash registers at K-Mart during the summer to...
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- April Russo (app103)
Truth be told, I didn't go to a public school until college. The methods at the private schools I attended don't sound particularly different, though. Learning to think for yourself doesn't seem to be something we encourage as a culture, really, and neither is knowledge for the sake of knowledge alone, so it's not surprising how our schools run. We live in a culture that seems to celebrate ignorance and that derides intelligence and learning. What are we gonna do?
- Victor Ganata
Wondering if we really need to see these tweets in real time on Google search results.... the quality of these tweets seems to be very low. Maybe Google should be filtering tweets.. Not sure how this is useful at all to someone searching Google for "Tiger Woods"
I think this will only increase twitter spam :(( Google is usually very very religious about their search result quality... not sure how this got through...
- Bindu Reddy
Exactly, the more you tweet, the better your chances are for a site hit
- sofarsoShawn
interesting. didn't even realize there's these kinds of google search results now. thanks for the heads up!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Yup, I am writing a bot that scrapes Google trends, extracts search terms and writes tweets every 2 minutes with those search terms :)
- Bindu Reddy
New SEO pioneering! I want in! & it's also not just Twitter, but also Jaiku, identi.ca Myspace, FriendFeed & Facebook. & Bing (except for FB & TW) won't be including them in their search results.
- sofarsoShawn
I the quality of all tweets seems to be very low.
- Gabe
Oh bleh. Just tried a search for "snow". The realtime results are very distracting. Let us opt out, or put it on the side somewhere.
- Laura Norvig
from iPod
It's good to bring more users to twitter though, as they keep getting twitter rubbed into their face. That being said I should try that search.
- Richard A.
Interesting. So you can try spam these services, and get a high position on Google immediately. But filtering... based on what? The usual filters work on authority which in turn often works on ratings, citations, backlinks etc., and these won't be real-time because people first have to see and digest the message in question in order to link, cite and rate it.
- Philipp Lenssen
It auto-updates and that is an interesting feature. That's something I could see some use for :-)
- Richard A.
On the spam and SEO topic. Don't you think it'd measure retweet strength. If a lot of people retweet a subject then the link would be more relevant/interesting than if just one person retweets. Sorry for going slightly off topic. As an aside do retweets move back up to the top of the search? Should try cop15 and see how it behaves.
- Richard A.
@Philipp: smart question (as usual). I guess that Google's rank/filter could be based not on the tweet, but on the tweeter: e.g. someone who has many followers is a good source, etc. E.g. Google too should (in this case) change its paradigm, switching from a "web of pages" to a "web of people".
- milivella
Google needs real time spam/foul language filter.
- ashish
from iPhone
Have they implemented safesearch for real time search?
- ashish
from iPhone
@Philipp You have nailed the issue :) It is really really difficult to get a good grip on "quality" if the information/data is real-time. I still can't really figure out what the motivation behind doing something like this on the Google main search results is.
- Bindu Reddy
Sometimes it is nice to see people giving their reactions to news or event in real time but I hope it improves overtime.
- ashish
from iPhone
Am I the only one here who is using Topsy http://www.topsy.com on a daily basis to cut through Twitter noise? Works like a charm. News recommender systems are the Next Big Thing.
- Sean McBride
Sean, I'm on twitter for the conversations :-). I looked at topsy and I'll have to play with it, see how I could have fun with it.
- Richard A.
Richard A. -- I use Friendfeed for conversations (much more capable for that activity than Twitter, in my opinion). And I use Topsy to identify and grab the most important news on specialized topics flowing through Twitter. To each his or her own.
- Sean McBride
normalde thinkgeek gibi sitelerde kit olarak satılıyo, numaraları falan ütüyle basılıyo falan.. biz elimizdeki kısıtlı imkanlarla kumaş boyası vs kullandık. onların kalın telalarından türkiyede olmadığından 2 kat bez tela bastım icine falan :) cok acı cektik ama güzel oldu
- Bahriye
@Bahriye rakamlar çok düzgün olmuş da ona şaşırdım
- Selçuk Erdem
ahahha teşekkürler olcayto :)) tamamen level 1 dikiş bilgisiyle yabdım bunu
- Bahriye
çünkü selcuk, kopya kağıdı ile rakamları karbon kağıdı yardımıyla cizdim kumaşa.. sonra boyadım :)
- Bahriye
Yazmışsın gerçi ama birinci tekil şahısla çoğul şahıs arasında gidip gelmeler ilginç. 'Ben yaptım' sonra 'çok acı çektik'
- Selçuk Erdem
ya bunu bi arkadasıma yaptım selcuk.. ben acı cekince ona da acı cektirdim.. arayıp kafa ütülemeler YAA OOLMUYO OLM BU diye çemkirmeler falan. çekilen acı ortak :)
- Bahriye
havuçlu kek diyor ve seni geçmişle yüzleşmeye davet ediyorum. açtırma ağzımı bana.
- Bahriye
ben muntazaman yapıyorum sen geliyor musun yemeye nane? madem başka diye sordun söyledik... yanında filtre kahve de olsun... sütsüz.
- Özgür D. Cyric
i'd like to have my dice back now, KTHNXBAI
- Can Sungur
çağırdın mı özgür, hadi bahriye gel bak yaptım bugün dedin mi HA DEDİN Mİ.. askere gitmemiştin lan bana söz verdiğin zaman O KADAR ESKİ yani düşün..
- Bahriye
lan oha ben askere 2007'nin başında gittim 1 yıl kaldım o kadar eski dediğin 2.5/1.5 yıl :P davet etmeme gerek mi var sen ben geliyorum dicen gelicen... portakallimi olur havucmu olur pastaneden hazır mı olur kader kısmet :P umduk diil bulduk...
- Özgür D. Cyric
hayır arkadaşım. ben bildiğin havuclu kek istiyorum.
- Bahriye
bu ısrara avcunu yala diyebilirim mesala? ama saçını yalarsan renk tutar en azından?
- Özgür D. Cyric
bu cevabını sosyal medya unutmayacak özgür.. ben hic unutmicam..
- Bahriye
Aaa FRPci kız, hem de zar mar yapıyo, direkt artı rep, terazi nerde ona da tıklıycam. Bi de yok mu İstanbul'da şöyle güzelinden bir WoD partisi? Oynasak hep birlikte.... DND'ye de razıyım lan, çok zaman oldu...
- Selamon
küçükten beri bilimteknik vs okumanın yan etkileri işte.. hem hani sen biliyorsun diye herkes biliyor sanırsınya bazen.. hah bende o müzmin.. saftriklik işte :)
- ems
"Physicists have detected a particle of dark matter for the first time in human history, according to rumours buzzing around the internet. Should it prove correct the finding would have an Earth-shattering effect on our understanding of how galaxies form. Dark matter is believed to make up 90 per cent of the mass of the Universe. We can't see it but scientists think it is there due to the gravitational force it exerts. It could help account for the 'missing mass' in the Universe that would explain why galaxies rotate at their current speeds. Scientists have searched for evidence of the hypothetical matter since the 1970s both on Earth and in space. "
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
There were rumors a paper was about to published yesterday, but that was debunked, however that does not mean the discovery did or did not happen.
- RAPatton
Pffft! They MUST have found it... they took that picture, didn't they! On a more serious note, I worked on a project with one of the local geologic engineers who helped convert the abandoned mine (located in Ely, Minnesota) into a suitable setting for this experimental research.
- Mark Jepsen
That would be a great place to party when Friendfeed will shut down :)
- Jérôme Flipo
Very cool! What kind of LED lights are you using? We have old rope lighting that we are planning to change out for color changing LED rope lighting in in several rooms, but we have a bunch or research before we begin that project. Any tips from your experience?
- Rachel Lea Fox
Also, are the color changes tied to any data or just rotating on a cycle?
- Kevin Fox
We're using Color Kinetics: http://www.colorkinetics.com/. Beti actually ordered these, and I haven't investigated them deeply. There are two types of controls, one which is a dial on the wall that changes color, modes, and frequency of change. The other is an ethernet/RS-232 solution. We don't have the advanced one right now, but we may upgrade to it sometime after I look into it. I'm not sure how much work needs to be done to time the lights to something like Sonos.
- Cristo
I want one that ties to my brain according to my mood
- Jesse Stay
Rachel, also I think you like hidden doors, right? I don't think I've taken a photo of our finished hidden door, but I'll try to upload one soon.
- Cristo
"Disney has debuted the first official trailer for The Sorcerer's Apprentice on Apple. This new action-adventure movie stars Nicolas Cage as the Sorcerer Balthazar Blake, Jay Baruchel as his Apprentice, Monica Bellucci, Alfred Molina, Teresa Palmer, and Toby Kebbell. The Sorcerer's Apprentice is Disney's other big summer movie in addition to Prince of Persia. I loved Enchanted and I've been crossing my fingers hoping this would have as much Disney magic as that movie did. It definitely looks nothing like that, much darker and intense, but the visuals look amazing. You'll be surprised and I'm pretty frickin' excited to see this now!"
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
Chieze, it feels like a strange alternate universe version of National Treasure. Same players, same director and producer, and...of course, Cage.
- Derrick
That said, the visuals ARE pretty amazing. Oh, yeah Derrick, now that you mention it, yeah it does. (Kinda like how The Prestige felt like Bizarro world Batman Begins for the same reason)
- Chieze Okoye
Yeah, the lines sounded mediocre at best (eye-rollingly bad at worst -- thanks Mr. Cage), but the visuals sold it for me. I'm probably going to end up watching it.
- Chieze Okoye
The still above is almost enough to make me want to watch it. I love Nick Cage. the good movies are good, and the bad movies are fun.
- DJF
wow...it at least looks interesting. a cross between wanted, pirates of the Caribbean, and national treasure perhaps
- Sir Shuping
Cage is the same character in every movie, just with different hairpieces.
- rowlikeagirl
does cage even have hair anymore? I kinda of think he just wears a different wig depending upon his mood you know?
- Sir Shuping
I once ran into Cage a comic book store in '98-'99 when he was going to do Burton's Superman. He's a substantial man. Very broadchested. I can't really comment on his hair.
- Derrick
THis is not being my usual Disney Fan Boy/Shill but I got to see it on the big screen today (the Trailer) and every time I've seen new footage of this film, it makes me want to see more of it. Unlike the National Treasure flicks (which I've seen none of and is made by the same team), this looks hella impressive and fun. A science nerd who has to learn magic to save the world? I'm ready for it.
- Jason Toney
While playing WoW the other night (I'm a noob) I was thinking of this arcade game. Thanks for the memories!!
- jcunwired
It would be hilarious if your character in WoW would shriek and yelp like Dirk does.
- Victor Ganata
When I first tried that game at the arcades, I thought the objective was to get the guy killed because that's all I ever seem to have been able to do. And they were intricate deaths too.
- Arlan Koizumi
Great pic, AJ. I've never seen one quite that difficult before. What's even better is when you get one that you can't read, but some idiot hasn't tested the script in anything but Internet Explorer, so it fails miserably in Firefox and other browsers (apparently something causes some captchas to reload themselves when you hit the submit button in non-IE browsers, so you're always wrong).
- Curtiss Grymala
bizim dükkanın olduğu sokakta var, hattabir beyaz var karşı binanın catısında geziyor, bazen içimden şeytan dürtüyor şurada bir silahım olsa acaba uzaktan vurabilirmiyim diye :P amacım zarar vermek değil :P
- irfan ÖZTÜRK
deneyeceğim onları , nasıl şehrin zor şartlarına ayak uydurabilmişler mi? :P şaka ye ne vurması ciddiye aldın herhalde. dağ başı mı burası.
- irfan ÖZTÜRK